#Ear piercings

[bl00dfroma-fairy]

[awakeagainstmywill]

Sometimes, in the show, when the light hits Crowley just right and he is in side profile, the arm of his glasses behind his ear looks like the piece of an industrual ear piercing and I can't stop thinking about how DAMN GOOD IT WOULD LOOK ON HIM!? It just feels so right for him.

The ear piercing has now entered personal my headcanon for him, together with the black nailpolish 👌

I only used traditional media in the past and just recently got myself an iPad to try more digital. It's a lot of fun! This took me a stupidly long time, but HERE'S MY ✨VISION✨ I'm not super happy with the colors, but hey, i'll keep experimenting.

[mackthecheese]

I’m curious.

[rivenantiqnerd]

I think pierced ears and earrings are cool and all, but I’m not a fan of wearing earrings all the time because they allow the evil god of change and war and destruction to influence your thoughts emotions and actions and prevent the god of safety and peace and preservation from helping you and giving you extra superpowers and letting you share references to your favorite book series.

[marzipanandminutiae]

would you have any reading suggestions to learn more about the earrings are evil era??? I've never heard of that aspect of fashion history and I am curious

Oh man, it was wild

you saw the first stirrings of it in the 1890s, when you started to get (mostly white and middle-to-upper-class) proto-feminists arguing that ear piercing was barbaric- keep an eye on the racist undertones there; they will come up again-and forcing women to suffer for fashion. I cannot emphasize enough that, until that point, ear piercing had been pretty much normal for this race/class/gender group. For centuries. You see criticism of the practice here and there, but nothing that really stuck.

The objections slowly increased until roughly the mid-1920s, when everything reached a tipping point and pierced ears became largely taboo for most white Americans and Brits of northern/western European descent. If that sounds HIGHLY specific, it is- communities from southern and sometimes eastern Europe retained cultural practices of ear piercing, to the point where it was often used as a point against them by mainstream society. It was also associated with Latino people, Black people, and the Romani, which. Yeah. I don't need to tell you how that went down.

It also developed associations with sexual immorality and/or backwards thinking. One newspaper letter I read came from a teen girl in the 1940s, wondering why she shouldn't pierce her ears if her very respectable grandmother had piercings. The response was something like "well, they did all sorts of things in the Bad Old Days that we shouldn't do now." True in many ways, or course, but...piercing your ears? That's the hill culture decided to die on as far as antiquated behavior that we should leave behind? Apparently yes.

Earrings themselves never went out of style, which led to the birth of clip-ons and screwbacks. Ironic that the "don't surfer for fashion" crowd was so eager to embrace screwing tiny vices onto your ears, but there we are. My own mother (born 1953) remembers her mother (born 1926) always taking off her screwback earrings immediately after getting home from a party, literally in the foyer of their house the second the door shut. There had been adaptations for unpierced ears before- Little Women, published in 1868, describes Meg March hanging earrings from a flesh-colored silk ribbon tied around the base of her ear -but they'd never caught on like this before.

However, the pendulum was soon to swing back. After just 40 years of Piercing Panic, in the 1960s, girls began piercing their ears again in droves. As piercing moved from the slumber party or summer camp back to the professional jewelers whose families had been early professional piercers in the 19th century- and to befuddled doctors who had no idea what they were doing yet still received piercing requests -cultural commentators had no idea what to make of it. Some decried the new trend while most took an air of bemused neutrality. My personal favorite article expressed surprise that "Space Age misses" were adopting these "Victorian traditions."

(In 1965, my grandmother took Mom to the anesthesiologist down the street who was offering to pierce his young daughter's friends gratis, and got it done. My grandfather had strongly disapproved of the idea, but in the end it took him a week to notice the new earrings.)

As to sources...honestly, I've just gone to Google Books, specified a time frame, and typed in "ear piercing," "pierced ears," "pierce ears," etc. Tons of primary sources at your fingertips, though I'm not always great about documenting or saving what I find. There's not much written about it formally, I've found- no books or scholarly studies. It may just be too close in history to attract much academic attention, though I find it fascinating.

This little blip where something that's been normal for most of western history suddenly became taboo for a hot second.

Also my ear piercings just turned 20 five days ago, commemorating the date that I was taken with much ceremony to Piercing Pagoda (and that horrible gun; it's a wonder I didn't get keloids) to get me out from underfoot while the Thanksgiving feast was being made. Grandma got hers pierced on the same day, at age 78. Happy Birthday, Marzi's ear piercings!

[clarityroses]

Saw that ekkos ear was pierced in the finale and I don’t think main universe ekko had it pierced before that point and this was the first thing that came to my mind

[ink-ling]

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[incognitopolls]

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[kn1v3sandp3ns]

Thinking about gauges >_<

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[pseudaisthishh]

Back to 4g 🫶🏻

[mytokyodebunker]

A list of the ghouls' piercings

Piercing Appreciation Post <3 This list covers the piercings visible in the game and character art available online A bit long, so kept under cut

Frostheim

Jin Kamurai

No piercings.

Tohma Ishibashi

Left ear: No piercings

Right ear: One helix and one lobe piercing

Lucas Errant

Left ear: One helix piercing

Right ear: Two helix and one lobe piercing

Kaito Fuji

Left ear: One lobe piercing

Right ear: One lobe piercing

Vagastrom

Alan Mido

Left ear: One lobe piercing

Right ear: Two lobe piercings

Leo Kurosagi

Left ear: One lobe piercing

Right ear: One lobe piercing

One tongue piercing

Sho Haizono

Left ear: One helix piercing

Right ear: Two helix and one lobe piercing

Jabberwock

Haru Sagara

Left ear: One lobe piercing

Right ear: One lobe piercing

Towa Otonashi

No piercings

Ren Shiranami

Left ear: One lobe piercing

Right ear: Two lobe piercings

Sinostra

Taiga Hoshibami

Left ear: No piercings

Right ear: One lobe piercing

Romeo Lucci

Left ear: One lobe piercing

Right ear: One lobe piercing

Ritsu Shinjo

No piercings

Hotarubi

Subaru Kagami

Left ear: One lobe piercing

Right ear: No piercings

Haku Kusanagi

Left ear: One lobe piercing

Right ear: One lobe piercing

Zenji Kotodama

No piercings

Mortkranken

Yuri Isami

Left ear: Two lobe piercings

Right ear: One lobe piercing

Jiro Kirisaki

Left ear: Two helix and two lobe piercings

Right ear: Three helix and one lobe piercing

Obscuary

Rui Mizuki

Left ear: One industrial bar

Right ear: One helix and one lobe piercing

Edward Hart

Left ear: One lobe piercing

Right ear: No piercings

Lyca Colt

Left ear: No piercings

Right ear: One helix piercing.

As thanks for reading to the end, here's some nice close-ups showing their piercings:

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photos edited by me, original art is from either in-game or the official Tokyo Debunker twitter account

[em0los3r]

some ear p☆rn for yall

i would so do this if i didn’t lose every earring ever

[jordanjump-scare]

HER MAKEUP. <3

[myut0eve]

Wanted to cement how I draw fantasy/DnD ears My goal is to differentiate them the best I can so they dont look too alike qwq